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SLIGED' PIUTUREQ] No. 291. 39. Pa-terited Jan. '8, 1884;

Maia ME INVENTOR 4 JATTORNBY P UNITED STATES PATE T OFFICE.

WALTER STRANDERS, on NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO EDWARD I. HORS- MAN, or BROOKLYN, N. Y.

SLICED PICTURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 291,639,.dated January 8, 1884.

Application filed October 27, 1853. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WALTER STRANDERS,

a resident of the city of New York, in the thereof.

sides of the. tablet.

tors in the background.

This invention relates to a sliced picture I which has its parts so arranged that they can be interchanged without disturbing the general scene which the collection of slices is intended to represent.

The invention consists, substantially, in using two separate pictures, parts of which are alike, while the remaining parts thereof are different, and in attaching them to opposite By this arrangement the parts of the tablet, when the same is sliced into sections, can be interchanged in the manner hereinafter described.

In Fig. 1 is represented the appearance of the picture on one side of the collection of sections, and in Fig. 2 the reverse of said tablet. It will be seen that the picture in Fig. 1 represents a stage with the representations of the actors thereon, and a gallery with specta- The picture shown in Fig. 2 represents also a stage with the actors, and with a gallery and spectators in the background; but the representations of the figures on the stage in Fig. 2 are not the same as those in Fig. 1, yet that which would be the upper part in the two pictures is substantially the same. I

The pictures are produced, preferably, by printing them on paper, which is gummed or otherwise attached to opposite sides of a wood en or other tablet, the latter being then cut by vertical incisions, andby a horizontal incision, into a suitable number of separate sections. In the drawings these sections are eight in number, and marked a b c d e f g h. It will be seen that by gumming the pictures in reverse order upon opposite sides of the wood before it is out into sections said sections bear a peculiar relation to one another.

Thus, on comparing Figs. 1 and 2, it will be seen that if it should be desired to place the representation of Old King Cole, which is on the reverse of section a, into Fig. 1, this can be doneby exchanging the sections a and h and reversing them, for the section it will now show the same part of the gallery which was shown by section a, and the sectiona will show the representation of the old king on the stage, instead of Fatima, who is shown in Fig. 1.

It is not essential that the sections should be interchangeable for those vertically above or below them. In fact, greater amusement will be caused if, when a lower section is reversed, it is found to match an unexpected portion in the upper part. of the picture which, when reversed, will produce that which will fit the gap last produced in the lower part. In other words, in my improved arrangement of sections each section hason one face a scene or representation which is substantially like that on one other section, so that there are always two sections that complement one anoth er; but the reverse sides of those complementing sections show entirely different pictures, which, however, are also adapted to fill the same place in the group of pictures. Thus in the example shown the sections a and h complement each other, for the face of a shown in Fig. 1 is substantially like the face of h shown in Fig. 2; but the reverse of a, which is shown in Fig. 2, is entirely different from that of h shown in Fig. 1, and nevertheless both are adapted to fill the same place in the group. So, 0 and f complement each other, b and e, d and'g.

I claim A sliced picture composed of series of sections which are decorated on both sides, there being for each section a complementing section, which is adapted to take its place in either of the scenes which can be represented by the sections, all the sections being adapted to produce one picture, in which changes can be effected by interchanging the complementing sections, substantially as specified.

WALTER STRANDERS.

Witnesses:

WILLY G. E. ScHULTz, J OHN M. SPEER. 

